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2/15/2013 10:49AM

Seib & Wessel: Will Senate OK Nominees?

Jack Lew appears headed for confirmation as Treasury secretary, but Republicans slow the process for voting on confirmation of former colleague, Chuck Hagel, as defense secretary, even though Obama's foreign policy is much like his predecessors.

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... I ... I ... it's time we have a president who doesn't play tennis ball he can play she ... Secretary State he doesn't have another Treasury secretary doesn't yet have a defense secretary we getting close to having those two holes filled ... but if it ... is getting close ... Jack Lew to tree ... line at the hearing ... there are questions being raised about what he did when he was a Citigroup and it doesn't appear to be in no position are now supporting its opposition to slow one ... I guess it by the end of February to be ... in office I knew that dollar bills with that really wouldn't ... and doing a lot once he gets there were intended to steer us away from the ... this was the Fiscal gorge of the moment so it's being budget director is much is treasure Sector and in the church I dealing with Congress on ... Fiscal and sequester the across the board spending cuts continue resolution and it ... is the president has any hope of getting any of this deficit reduction he talked about ... Mr. he doesn't go into debt to deliver ... some meantime chock a goal has been damaged alot along the road here yet we learned this week is going to need sixty votes to ... to go for it ... it's the up beyond filibuster filibuster so we ... some of those senators who said they will not support a filibuster me supported delayed hear people like ... what blind and were with government on we are what McCain will to ... although it looks like ... but I wanted someone earning years whether we've learned anything along the way except for the fact that unlike Chuck a go in there doesn't seem to be at the underlying ... philosophical divide on ... substantive issues here that that is really tried this in in other words ... Bush National scary policies turn concert Obama national security policy has turned out to be an awful lot like Bush national security policy way more than I think any of this would've predicted ... well that's true especially in the realm counterterrorism operations on drones on detention of of ... of policy on in the end ... very similar ... um you know ... there is a difference between chock a goal and then Neil Kong wing of the Republican Party campaign was naughty interventionist he is skeptical of military power ... that is the fundamental goals awful to buy that's ... that's exists between chopped kale and we knew all the party of the snot for the most part was debated over the last few weeks ... we've been having debates about support for Israel ... Analysts Iranian sanctions on ... and things like that but there is a philosophical division ... and I guess in the weeks ahead will figure out whether that Social Suffolk commission that matters in places ... of beyond Afghanistan Iraq and ... of the great and the conflicts and haven't really erupted yet ... that's right I mean it matters not how we approach Syria what will do in Northern Africa I mean all really and to ... so ... Zach